Boiler-hanger.



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BOILBB, HANGER. vulLwA'rlolsr FILED AUG. 10,1908.

.Patented Dec; 27, 1910.

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JOSEPH F. BAUER AND FREDERICK C. S'lILVIlVIEL,v OF CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE, ASSIG-NORS 'IO THE GASEY-HEDGES COMPANY, OF CHATIANOOGA, TENNESSEE, A

CORPORATION OF OHIO.

BOILER-I-IANGER.

Application filed August 1o, 1908.

Specification of Letters Patent.

and cheap to make and eifective in its op-- eration.

A further object is to so construct the hanger that it may be applied to the boiler near the top thereof, thus removing it from the brick-work and away from the point of greater heat, and also one which may be used with any style of boiler.

The invention consists in the constructions and combinations of parts hereinafter described and set forth in the claims.

Figure l is a side elevation of a boiler, showing our improved hanger applied thereto, together with the support for the boiler. Fig. 2 is a frontelevation of the same. Fig. 8 is a vertical sectional view through the hanger, showing the hanger rod in position. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the hanger with the rod applied thereto.

Like parts are represented by similar characters of reference in the severalviews.

The hanger proper is constructed from a single integral plate of metal, so bent as to form two vertical walls, 031 a2, each having on its lower edge a laterally extending flange, a4 a5, and being connected together at the top by a web-po-rtion a3. The flanges, a4 and a5, are curved to conform to the shape of the boiler and are perforated to receive rivets for the purpose of Securing the hanger to the boiler. Each of the walls has an opening, a6, and the connecting web, a3, is perforated to receive the hanger rod, b. The lower end of the rod is screw-threaded to receive a nut or bar, 51, which extends through the openings, a, at either end and forms the means for connecting the rod to the hanger. The distance between the walls, a2 and al, is preferably about equal to the diameter of therod, so that a minimum amount of metal will be required.

In order that the web, a3, may preferably stand horizontal so as to bring the perforation therein in line with the vertical axis of the rod, b, the plate forming the hanger is so bent that the upper edges of the walls will be on an incline with reference to the anges, at, a5, thus bringing the connecting web at an incline to the said flanges,so that when the hanger is in its proper position on the boiler the web will be in a substantially horizontal plane. This will be accomplished by having one of the sides of the blank plate, from which the hanger is formed, longer than the other side, and so bending the plate that the connecting flanges, a* a5, will be parallel and equally separated, the eXtra metal of the one side of the plate causing the walls, al and a2, to be much higher at this end and gradually taper down toward the other side of the plate.

It will be seen that by this construction a very strong hanger is secured, as the strain is brought vertically on the walls al and c2, which are braced at their upper ends lby the integral connecting web; thus there can be no tendency to spread the walls. The structure also provides I'or permitting the application ofl the hanger high up on the boiler to remove it from the heat as much as possible, and the hanger may be readily applied to any style of boiler.

Having thus described our invention, we claim:

l. A boiler hanger comprising, two vertical walls having an apertured connecting web and attaching flanges; said walls having means for supporting a nut against vertical displacement in alinement with said web aperture, a nut supported by said supporting means and a threaded rod extending through said web aperture and secured into said supported nut; whereby the nut will be held in place when the rod is removed and while the rod is being screwed in.

2. A boiler hanger comprising, two vertical Walls having opposed slots, an apertured In testimony whereof, We have hereunto connecting web, and attaching flanges, an 4set our hands this 1st day of Aug. 1908. elongated nut mounted in the Wall slots and JOSEPH P. BAUER.

a threaded rod extending through said Web FREDERICK C. STIMMEL. aperture and screwed into said` supported Witnesses:

nut; whereby the nut Will be held in place E. RALPH SEITER,

during the insertion and removal of the rod. JAMES M. BROWN. 

